Corset-stay



(No Model.) M. W. HENIUS.

v CORSET STAY. No. 503,909. Patented Aug. 22, 1893.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX WOOLF HENIUS, OF-BROOKLYN,NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO DAVID H. FANNING, OFWORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,909, dated August22, 1893.

Application filed March 25, 1893. Serial No. 467,628. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that 1, MAX WOOLF I-IENIUS, of Brooklyn, county of Kings,State of New York,have invented an Improvementin Stays, of which thefollowing description, in connectwo with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The fronts of corsets, waists, dresses, &c., commonly contain steelsprovided with eyeplates and pins or studs which are caught together tokeep them in place, said steels belng designated by the term stays.These stays in use are subjected to great strain, and are bent, more orless, and frequently broken at the waist-line of the corset or othergarment into which they are incorporated, the

frequency of breaking depending upon the.

shape or occupation of the person wearing the same, and frequently thebreaking of a stay causes injury to the person. I have sought to soimprove this class of stays that they will not break at thewaist-line,or point of greatest strain.

My invention consists in a stay having its polnt or points of greateststrain reinforced by means of a series of disconnected and independentindentations or pits formed Within the outline edges of the stay, as Iwill procoed to describe and finally claim.

Figure 1 in front elevation shows a pair of stays embodying myinvention, and Fig. 2, a section in the line a, but much enlarged.

The stays A, A, their eye-plates a, and pins or studs (1', are and maybe all as usual. The greatest strain upon the stay is between the linesI), b, and it is at this point. that the stay needs reinforcing orstrengthening. The stay between the lines b, b, is subjected at its rearside to the action of a suitable blunt tool, which, while the stay restson a suitable die, makes in the rear side of the stay a series of pitsc, which at the outer or face side of the stay show as aseries ofelevations c. For the best results these pits orindentations willpreferably be made more shallow at the ends than at the central portionsof the series of pits. The stay may be pitted along any part of its bodywhich it may be desirous to reinforce or stiffen.

In my first attempts to stiffen or reinforce stays to obviate breakage Ithought that a rib would be the better and more practicable form, but inpractice I found that the rather hard tempered material of the staywould not take a long bend, such as required to form a rib, withoutcracking, but I did find that I could successfully make in such materiala series of substantially circular pits at ashort distance apart, and Ifound that the series of pits gave the requisite stiffness, and that thestiffness due to the pits was better suited to the requirements'of thestay than would be a long rib. I, therefore, do not claim a staystifiened by a rib-like indentation, but only when the indentations aremade in series as separate short pits formed within theoutline edges ofthe stay.

Stays have been reinforced at the waist line by means of continuoustransverse crimps, corrugations 0r creases, but in order to efiect anyconsiderable reinforcement by this means, it is necessary to make thecreases deep and large, and because of this fact and the other fact thatthe creases project from both sides of the plane of the stay the saidstay is rendered unduly bulky and protuberant. By means of my separatedindentations, the stay may be readily reinforced, no matter how hard itsmetal may be, without danger of breaking it, and moreover theseindentations may be very small without impairing their efficiency. Thesepits may be variously distributed on the stay and be more or lessclosely arranged.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A stay having its point or points of greatest strain reinforced by meansof a series of disconnected and independent indentations or pits formedwithin the outline edges of the stay, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAX WOOLF HENIUS.

Witnesses:

PETER 0. Forms, J. P. PUELS.

